On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §683 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: Sin not imputed without law means knowing transgression

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For meanwhile what the Apostle says—that sin is not imputed where there is no law—is altogether genuine to what he had said earlier in Romans 4:15: Where there is no law, there is no transgression either—which Calvin, to whom the opponent appeals, so explains as to teach that the Apostle is not speaking of any simple transgression from which no one is exempt, but calls it transgression where a mind taught what pleases God and what displeases him, with limits defined for it by God’s voice, knowingly and willingly breaks through, etc.

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GAR. Responsio in promptu est. Interim enim quod dicit Apostolus, non imputari peccatum ubi non est lex, omnino genuinum est illi quod prius dixerat, Romani IV. 15. Ubi non est lex, ibi nec transgressio est, quod Calvinus, ad quem provocat opponens, ita exponit, ut doceat Apostolum non loqui de simplici ulla transgressione, a qua nemo eximitur, sed transgressionem appellare ubi animus edoctus quid Deo placeat, quidve displiceat, finitis voce Dei sibi definitis, sciens ac volens perrumpit, &c.

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Josué de la Place (Placeus) on the imputation of Adam's first sin: chapters 1 to 12 and 14, and the later disputation up to its chapter on Romans 5:14, from the Latin. The rest is not yet translated.

Josué de la Place (c. 1596–1655), known in Latin as Placeus, was pastor at Nantes and from 1633 professor of theology at the Academy of Saumur, the school of Cameron and Amyraut.

On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin argues the distinctive Saumur thesis: Adam's sin reaches his posterity only mediately, through the inherited corruption — never by immediate reckoning of a sin they did not commit. Fellow Reformed theologians rejected the view, but the book remains its classic statement.

Part only: Chapters 1–12 and 14, and the disputation up to Romans 5:14

Datec. 1645–1655 AD (written after the 1645 Synod of Charenton, and read in draft by Drelincourt by 10 December 1653; printed posthumously at Saumur, 1661; Reformed / Amyraldian circle)

The English is made from the 1661 Saumur Latin of chapters 1 to 12 and 14 and part of the later disputation. No earlier English was copied.

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